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Hag HaMatzah - Feast of Unleavened Bread
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Feast Day of Unleavened Bread Parasha Thoughts, Studies, and Comments
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The goal of this section is to get everybody's studies, thoughts, and opinions on anything in the weeks parasha. This includes, word studies, thoughts on verses, history, related subjects, and anything that may help us to understand this Torah Portion. Even if it's just an observation on the smallest part, it can help others who may not have seen it that way. The goal is then as we visit the parasha (Torah Portion) each year we will create a collection of studies and thoughts on this portion and everyone will benefit by having a broader view of the portion. Shalom!
A disciple should diligently search for the truth and humbly deny and reconsider it's possession.
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Feast Day of Unleavened Bread Parasha 2006 Message Lovingneighbor
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Freedom
For Feast day of Unleavened Bread
By Ross Quintana 4-12-2006
Today's Torah Portion for the first day of Unleavened Bread takes us through the sacrifice of the lamb, teaching our children, slaying of the firstborn, being thrust out of Egypt, Passover ordinance, Passover offerings, and recircumcision of Israel.
Num 28:17 And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
Exo 12:42 It is a night to be much observed unto YHWH(the Lord) for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of YHWH to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
This night is to not just be observed, but to be much observed, not to ourselves, but to YHWH. For it is He who brought us out of Egypt not by the strength of our own hand, and not a golden calf. He deserves the glory. This is great liberation of Israel. The captives were set free and in this is great rejoicing. Not for our own freedom's sake, but praise to YHWH for his mercy and his faithfulness to his word he promised Avraham. Exo
2:24 And Elohim(God) heard their groaning, and Elohim remembered his covenant with Avraham (Abraham), with Yitzchak (Isaac), and with Ya'akov (Jacob).
Let's look at the original command and measuring stick of Israel's obediance.
Exo 12:22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
Exo 12:23 For YHWH will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, YHWH will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
The blood of the lamb was to go onto 3 places.the lintel or the top of the door, and on each side post. Let's look at what these might represent. The lintel is the head of the door. We know that we apply the blood of the lamb to our household and ourselves. I believe the significance of this is that the head which is the authority of the body is the model of the lintel, and the 2 side posts that hold it up are our legs, they are what control what direction we go. By applying the blood to our authority or submitting our authority to Messiah we did the first part, we obeyed him. The commandments were not given yet and even the ordinances of the sacrificial system were not yet given but this didn't relieve us from obeying God it washis first request, to recognize his authority in our lives.
Jer 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
Jer 7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
The second application of the blood of the lamb is the two side posts. I believe these represent your legs or your walk. We are to walk after Elohim's commands not our own imagination. We are to be sanctified and take action to prove we are being sanctified.
Jer 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Once they decided to submit to Elohim's will and obey, they were expected to do what Elohim commanded them. This is applying the blood to the lintel and the two side posts. This is what was to be checked by YHWH and then the determination of whether the angel of death would come in and smite you or not would be made. The children of Yisrael made a covenant of blood by putting the blood on the lintel and two side posts, the same promise they made with the second witness at Mount Sinai.
Exo 19:8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that YHWH hath spoken we will do. And Moshe returned the words of the people unto YHWH.
It is the same expectation Elohim has always had for us. That we both hear and do all he commands.
Deu 5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
Deu 5:27 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
Deu 5:28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.
Deu 5:29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
Deu 5:30 Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.
Deu 5:31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
Deu 5:32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Deu 5:33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
Deu 6:1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
Deu 6:2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
Deu 6:3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
Deu 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
Deu 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Deu 30:11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
Deu 30:12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
Deu 30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
Deu 30:14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Doing it is the Goal of Torah, of course to do it you must incline your ear to hear it and in between hearing it and doing it is the decision to obey and submit to the voice. It is then that the spirit comes under the authority of the voice and then from the spirit proceeds the action.
Eze 33:31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
Eze 33:32 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Messiah explains who is in his house and sums this up in a parable:
Luk 8:20 And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.
Luk 8:21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.
Mat 21:28 But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
Mat 21:29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
Mat 21:30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.
Mat 21:31 Which of the two did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Yahushua saith unto them, truly I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of Elohim before you.
So what does this mean to our freedom, and what are we free from? The Children of Yisrael we to be circumcised it says a second time because although their fathers were circumcised in the flesh they also would not do all Elohim commanded them.
Jos 5:6 For the children of Yisrael walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of YHWH: unto whom YHWH sware that he would not shew them the land, which YHWH sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
They didn't obey or do what they heard. The voice creates a interesting model. It is the spirit or breath in action. the action is the vibration. Much like YHWH's word created all things, i believe it was his spirit in action. The very voice or spirit that vibrated upon the waters in the beginning. So as Messiah is called the word, he literally was the Spirit of Elohim lived out in the Flesh, thus being the goal of the law.
In Yahushua(Joshua) 5:9 this is summed up:
Jos 5:9 And YHWH said unto Yahushua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.
There is three things highlighted in the text: First he says after he circumcised them, that he rolled off also meaning to remove the reproach from off them. We know this is the foreskin being removed but he paints a picture here. The word reproach is Kher'paw in hebrew H2781 which is from the root word H2778 Khaw'raf meaning to pull off, strip or betroth (by means of surrendering). He is circumcising them to keep the passover in verse 10 and he says he first removed(rolled away) the betrothal (sinful flesh) of Egypt from off them so that he may be joined in spirit to them. He must remove the betrothal to Satan(sin in the flesh) before we can be betrothed to him(spirit of Love).
How does this all tie in? Well it is the same message throughout, we must first surrender to his authority and remove our betrothal to sin/satan (the foreskin) then we must obey and do all our new future husband wants us to do (Torah). We must be made free from sin and the joining of our flesh to sin, so we may be joined in spirit to righteousness.
1Co 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Mashiach? shall I then take the members of Mashiach, and make them the members of an harlot? Elohim forbid.
1Co 6:16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
1Co 6:17 But he that is joined unto Adonai is one spirit.
May we be removed from sin and joined to righteousness, may his blood be upon our lentil and our side posts, and may we be circumcised in heart and not just in flesh so that we will be removed far from and free from sin. Let's celebrate our freedom and rejoice in righteousness. Shalom!
A disciple should diligently search for the truth and humbly deny and reconsider it's possession.
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